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I hate all this hidden shit in kitchens
I have to work with design firms at times and the amount of super rich people hiding shit behind panels is wild
They don't want to see what things are
It's like this Apple design prerogative of everything being smooth with no buttons or wires that everyone is in love with - and it sucks balls - things should be what they are
Working on this right now
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But you see it everywhere
Like this kitchen seems fine
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but it comes with doors so you don't have to see it
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I hate this design aesthetic
LET THINGS BE WHAT THEY ARE
Motherfuckers think they are in Dune
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Paul Atreides' jacks
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Attached to the roof?I've got this gaff that basically needs a new gaff attached to the roof followed by a replacement root kinda deal.
For big projects is there any big no-nos or things I should aim at?
There's weird things like the house doesn't have a heating system other than fireplaces in the rooms, two foot+ walls, all sorts of weird choices in various rooms, every door in the place is a different height and most of them are too low, the list goes on. It's 200+ years old, ~nothing seems standard
Nah i was joking. I was implying that more or less everything in the place could probably do with work.Attached to the roof?
Like an extra storey added?
If there is no heating system and you are starting from scratch - and it's a gut reno - you might consider underfloor heating
Easy to do when it's not a house someone is actively living in
Everything about these types of projects is specific to the house and its idiosyncrasiesNah i was joking. I was implying that more or less everything in the place could probably do with work.
I could live on the upstairs floor, more or less. I don't really have a spare place to live ATM, but I was thinking about underfloor. I was thinking about underfloor on the ground floor, opening up a lot of the south facing stuff / pulling out the ceilings etc and using passive solar for the upstairs floors.
I guess the question is: how long does the installation typically take? I could handle a couple of weeks without too much pain.
Everything about these types of projects is specific to the house and its idiosyncrasies
Finding someone to do the work will be as tough as any other part of it
Figuring out what's involved - educating yourself - will help things go easier
What is your ground floor structure?
A long spirit level will tell you everything you need to know about how the floor is slopingYeah, agreed. Trying to get a lad in the door is tricky enough these days it's seeming.
Concrete (?) I think. There's some ancient tiles in parts of it, and I think various levels of concrete throughout. Even the concrete feels a bit knackered in areas. Also, I think the entire floor is sloping kind of in the same direction that the ground outside is. Like if you walk along the hall from front to back it's sloping away the whole way.
I was thinking all of this could be fixed if I pull the subfloor out and put a single level, while doing the underfloor stuff.
yeah. we're talking more than 200 years old though. There's irregularities on top of the irregularities. Nothing is flat or straight, things will roll to some extent but it's off in every direction so it's hard to see. I think it's more of a laser level sort of thing.A long spirit level will tell you everything you need to know about how the floor is sloping
Or failing that, a ball
Underfloor heating will lose you some floor to ceiling height
And you would need to decide what method you will be using for heating the house - oil, gas, heat pump, solar etc
In construction, so many things are contingent on each other
Plus no one wants the difficult jobyeah. we're talking more than 200 years old though. There's irregularities on top of the irregularities. Nothing is flat or straight, things will roll to some extent but it's off in every direction so it's hard to see. I think it's more of a laser level sort of thing.
I doing actually care about the unevenness by itself, but I think re doing the floor would fix a lot of issues.
I guess I just need to get a lad in the front door. JFC though, that's easier said than done.
Well, if the concrete floor is knackered you would dig that out and claw back some of the height, na? Might be an argument in favour of doing both jobs at once. (Edit...that's probably what you're suggesting...apologies if so. Yeah, you'd still lose a wee bit of height)A long spirit level will tell you everything you need to know about how the floor is sloping
Or failing that, a ball
Underfloor heating will lose you some floor to ceiling height
And you would need to decide what method you will be using for heating the house - oil, gas, heat pump, solar etc
In construction, so many things are contingent on each other
Stoves and / or back boiler and rads?fireplaces in the rooms, two foot+ walls
fucking hell.So Mr exterminator man has been in and given me his opinion and will email me a detailed report.
suffice to say, the woodworm is treatable but has clearly been there for years and must have been known about, due to evidence of prior old failed treatment methods. and is visible in some places.
before we bought it our evaulation report from the bank and our structural survey from some archtiects never picked up on it. Mr exterminator is going to charge €2.5K to treat all the joists and whatever floorbooards we leave down. he reckons we'd have a case against the surveyors.
either way im ripping up carpets, taking up most floorboards and have to empty the attic of allllll the shitty old insulation in it. fork out aload of money to mr exterminator,
then buy lots of materials and reinstall everything
interestingly enough i was also looking up underfloor water heating (wavin?) the last few days. toying with the idea of getting rid of the radiators upstairs
those pre-sales surveys aren't worth the paper they're written on. i remember when i bought my first house, with a significant proportion of it under a flat roof, i found out afterwards that the survey did not include any inspection of the roof *except from the ground*, but saw fit to comment on the fact that the wallpaper was dated and probably should be refreshed.
Well, if the concrete floor is knackered you would dig that out and claw back some of the height, na? Might be an argument in favour of doing both jobs at once. (Edit...that's probably what you're suggesting...apologies if so. Yeah, you'd still lose a wee bit of height)
interestingly enough i was also looking up underfloor water heating (wavin?) the last few days. toying with the idea of getting rid of the radiators upstairs
fucking hell.
I do think the pre-sale surveys tend to be pretty superficial - for no other reason than you generally can't go knocking holes in walls, or ripping off wallpaper/carpets of a house you don't yet own. From my direct and second hand experience they are more likely to pick up on regulatory stuff, than the more subtle structural things. (for example, our house was re-wired by cowboys 5 or so years previous to us buying it. They had run earth wires to all the outlets, but neither ran them back properly to a central ground, or installed a proper earth rod. So if you looked at the fusebox, unscrewed a ceiling rose, it all looked kosher - but was very fucking dodgy indeed)
in terms of the underfloor heating -given you'll have to do a shit load of the prep work anyway, it would be worth considering.
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